Comment Re:Overdid it. (Score 1) 226
I think it's specifically trying to reproduce the look of an old television CRT.
Comment Re:The Sun? (Score 2, Informative) 321
Comment Re:The Sun? (Score 1) 321
I'm beginning to lean towards the imaging artifact explanation also. If you go a little ways north you can see a large area with this grid pattern appearance.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=31.480209,-24.120483&spn=2.988616,5.026245&t=h&z=8
Comment Re:Who could've guessed!? (Score 1) 426
I was disappointed by the remote also. It was much less precise than I had hoped or had been lead to believe in a lot of the reviews. The local BestBuy happened to get a shipment last Friday so I picked one up since there were a couple on the shelf. I played the sports package for about 45 minutes. Now, a week later, I haven't touched the system once - and really don't have any desire to do so. I'll likely just pack it back up and return it so it'll have a better home.
I think it's a reasonably good attempt for the first generation of motion sensing controllers, but it's not good enough for me (personally) to find it an enjoyable experince.
Submission + - Do patents stop people creating 'perfect' devices?
Chris M writes: In a recent CNET article, the mobile phone editor writes about what he thinks would make a perfect phone. Unfortunately, as someone in the comments section points out, much of the technology that is used in this concept phone belongs to separate companies. 'Im sorry to be the devils advocate here, but most of those things are patented to separate companies. So it would require almost all the major manufacturers to do this, which is highly unlikely.' Do you think patents are stopping companies from creating devices or is it just a lack of imagination?
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